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Figure 5, continued. Kaplan Meier plots of time to hematopoietic recovery according<br />

to infusion of either Isolex 300iCD34-selected cells or unmanipulated cells. D: Platelet rec<br />

ery to 50310 9<br />

/L; E: Platelet recovery to 100310 9<br />

IL.very to 20310 9<br />

IL<br />

mg/m 2<br />

) for four planned cycles every 21-42 days. Of the 18 patients, 67%<br />

completed all four cycles of CTCb treatment <strong>and</strong> not surprisingly, the toxicity<br />

was primarily hematologic. These observations emphasize the need for careful<br />

dose-escalation studies of repetitive high-dose therapy.<br />

ITP drug combination<br />

The most commonly used drugs in published repetitive high-dose therapy<br />

regimens have been the alkylating agents, carboplatin, etoposide, <strong>and</strong> the anthracyclines.<br />

Although the results of studies using dose-escalated anthracyclines are

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